Henry Raines Show 05/13/17 Part 2

Andy Mele updates us on the news of the waterfront development. Aqua By The Bay. Andy explains to Henry and Augi Schmitz the Manatee County Commission's decision to send the plan back to the Manatee County Planning Commission and the Army Corp of Engineers rejection of the developments mitigation bank proposal.

Guest: The Suncoast Waterkeeper is Andy Mele, former Executive Director of a major Hudson River environmental group that was instrumental in forcing General Electric to remove 300,000 pounds of toxic PCBs from the Hudson. He is author of Polluting for Pleasure (W.W. Norton), the book that rendered the old two-stroke outboard motor all but extinct, keeping millions of gallons of oil and gasoline from American waterways every year. Andy has an MS in environmental science, Bard College. http://www.suncoastwaterkeeper.com/who_we_are